Book and CR-ROM

The project has enabled Tang Ba Hoanh, a leading authority on Vietnamese handicrafts and a former Director of Hai Duong Museum to compile the book "Traditional Handicrafts of Hai Duong". Tang Ba Hoanh surveys thirty-two different trades and craft villages. He describes craft development under the Vietnamese dynasties, foreign occupations and wars and connects it to modern craft production of local Vietnamese businesses today.

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The project aims to assist the Municipality of Hai Duong in Vietnam in developing the economic and cultural tourism potential of the town.

It will focus on building the management capacity of municipal staff to develop tourism and economic development initiatives to encourage the economic regeneration of the town.

A particular focus on the town's traditional craft businesses will serve as a demonstration project. The activities will involve a range of exchanges and capacity building programmes leading to the development of a tourism and crafts development plan for the town, the setting up of a crafts development board, and the rehabilitation of a building to serve as a crafts promotion centre.

The centre will act as focal point for the promotion of traditional crafts and will provide much needed business support to the local businesses, which are an important source of local employment.

The project aims to develop lasting links between the partner towns which will also support the development of initiatives such as the “Little Vietnam” Project in Hackney, London.